Let's hope so. Nonetheless, that's a pretty disorganized mixture of units they seem to be using. Eg. ".. a 20-foot-long segment [receding] @ 4 m/s .." Duncan -----Original Message----- From: James R. Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: September 26, 2001 23:31 Subject: [USMA:15405] Is Johnson Space Flight Center entering the 21st century?
> Usually at the end of each of these reports they >give the altitude of the ISS in statute miles (only). In this report, >the infomation given is: > "The station is orbiting at an average altitude of 240 statute miles >(385 km)." > >Oh, be still my heart... > >Jim > >Paragraph two from the report: >Mission controllers in Moscow fired pyrotechnic devices that activated >spring pushrods to eject the 20-foot-long instrumentation and >propulsion segment of the Pirs Docking Compartment at 10:36 a.m. >Central time today. The segment moved away from the station at a rate >of about 4 meters per second until it reached a point far enough away >to fire its control system jets without contaminating the station. It >then moved ahead and above the station to a distance of 24 kilometers >when its thrusters were commanded to fire in a deorbit maneuver sending >it into the atmosphere to burn up upon reentry. Left behind is the >16-foot long, 4-ton Pirs, which will serve as a new port for future >Russian vehicles arriving at the station and as an airlock from which >spacewalks will be conducted from the Russian segment of the outpost. > >-- >James R. Frysinger University/College of Charleston >10 Captiva Row Dept. of Physics and Astronomy >Charleston, SC 29407 66 George Street >843.225.0805 Charleston, SC 29424 >http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cert. Adv. Metrication Specialist 843.953.7644 >
